Jazz for aficionados

I was 14 when i bought my only one Rolling Stone album...

Good showmanship, great  musical talents...I listened to it perhaps 2 times  from one song to the last... I regretted buying this perfect  album designed for a certain crowd ( wanted to be rebels) 

No musical interest for me even at 14...

I was from a very poor family and paid for it a high price for me by the way ...

I learned to differentiate music from  perfect musical show...

I apologize i confuse this answer in my haste  about Rolling Stone with another thread not this jazz thread... Anyway, what is said is said...

@mahgister, 

One more confession. I've moved over to Marvin Gaye "What's Going On." It may not be jazz, but when I first heard it I had no idea what genre it fell into. I've listened to it a lot. 

Then i understand you... I moved to Leo Ferré....

If i had known him i would have bought a Marvin Gaye album instead of Rolling Stone...

I did not want to disparage Rolling Stone they were talented but  with no moving "jazz" element for me nor "poetry" for me.... 

One more confession. I’ve moved over to Marvin Gaye "What’s Going On." It may not be jazz, but when I first heard it I had no idea what genre it fell into. I’ve listened to it a lot. 

@mahgister 

Just curious, when you said "no moving jazz element" re: the Stones, did you mean it didn’t "move you" emotionally, or did you mean something else? 

I’d never heard of Leo Ferré, so I typed his name into Google and this was the first result: In 1970, when this song was first released, I was 14. I don’t think I could’ve related to the sentiment or handled the emotional intensity at that age. 

 https://www.google.com/search?q=leo+ferre&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS705US705&oq=leo+ferre&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyBwgBEC4YgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBwgDEC4YgAQyBwgEEC4YgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBwgGEC4YgAQyBwgHEAAYgAQyBwgIEAAYgAQyBwgJEAAYgATSAQkzMTMxajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBR3NOVsW1CXG&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:18900dfd,vid:jB2QFS1osSs,st:0

@maghister,

I didn't have a lot of money growing up either. I would work odd jobs and use the money to buy records. All of the records I bought in high school were classical. I couldn't stand the bubble-gum music on the radio. 

When I got to college friends introduced me to jazz and some of the better pop. I was very lucky to go to Berkeley in the mid-sixties. I saw Sunny Terry and Brownie McGhee several times, once at a party where I was sitting at their feet. Big Mama Thorton sang on the bar in a joint I went to. I went to San Francisco to hear Pharoah Sanders in person. I went to the Fillmore Auditorium to hear Mary Wells and Otis Redding. Plus other interesting rock groups like The Dead. 

I met a girl and she introduced me to the Beatles. I would have danced with her to anything. I introduced her to Stravinsky. Music has been woven through my life since I can remember.